Thank you for your reply. I'm still pretty angry about this and after getting moderated as flamebait (probably correctly), I'm going to cancel my Slashdot account in disgust. If I had the money, I would come over and protest myself but the only money I have is currently negative. Instead I have sent a letter to our PM, as follows;
Dear Prime Minister,
I have just read about extraordinary rendition on an online forum. This is a practice where the American government sends suspects overseas for interrogation and imprisonment. This practice is seen as a way of circumventing their obligations under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. If cases such as these are presented in an American court they are dismissed by the administration on "State Secrets" grounds.
In view of this I would like to ask the Prime Minister to;
*Assure me that we are in no way an accomplice, indirectly or directly, to this practice.
*Investigate these rumors for evidence.
*Act upon any evidence obtained.
I realise that America is the most powerful country in the world currently, but at the same time I don't think any moral person of our country would justify that as grounds for turning a blind eye to torture.
Yours sincerely, .
I doubt that will have any effect, but who knows, maybe she has received a thousands more like it. Good luck, I hope things improve for you. If it gets to bad, you will more than likely be welcome at this end of the world. We aren't totally screwed up in N.Z. yet (just a touch). Its a pity, America once epitomized hope for me. I believed in it standing for freedom, rights, humanity. When Neil Armstrong said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." I believed he meant for mankind. When I visited Los Angeles as a teenager, I liked the people. They were helpful and friendly....just good people. I still believe that most Americans are good people. At some point though, you have to stand for what you believe in or you will lose it. Even if you find it was a lie, it is still better to know.
Over the past five years my impressions of America have been destroyed by the actions of its government both at home and on the world stage. After reading Slashdot over the past year, there was a brief moment of hope that there were people still willing to lay down their comforts for the ideals expressed in your constitution. It seems now that Slashdot is a place were people say they stand for certain ideals, but the saying of it is enough for them. It is not enough for me.
Or we could build them with hollow sections and fill them with helium. That solves weight. As for oxygen and meteorites, why not have more than one? While we are at it, why not build a huge tube out to the vacumn, pump the air out, release the valve and use the atmospheric pressure to rise on? Dear gods, I have read to much sci fi.
Offtopic, but I don't care in this instance. Thats disgusting. Scrap getting upset about the NSA spying on you. They are taking people to other countries and torturing them! What sort of sick f***s are you? Why isn't every American who has read about this camped outside the White House calling for blood? You think looking after your family by staying in your job is important? There are more important things to protect your family against than the bank. Every single American who knows about this and hasn't done anything is a heartless, cowardly, spineless,....there aren't words to describe you!
THIS IS NOT A TROLL! THIS IS PURE FUCKING ANGER.
I'm sorry if that upsets some of you. I just can't believe it. Can any of you explain how you are justifying this to yourselves?
I would imagine that is fairly common. If you are a cop you don't want to piss off the locals, so you pick on the tourists. Gets the numbers up, looks good, and you don't have to face them the next day.
Vociferous
adjective
Vociferous people express their opinions and complaints loudly and repeatedly in speech, and vociferous demands, etc. are made repeatedly and loudly.
Two points. The first is that children are a special case. They are purposely discriminated against. The second is that schools are not there to teach you to think. They are there to indoctrinate you and prepare you for the workforce.
It is humorous isn't it. The story gets splashed all over/., is used as an example of why patents have gone to hell, and nobody appears to have done anything about it. Meanwhile, some actor gets pissed off, raises the money and does something. Doesn't bode well for/. at all.
"Remember: give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. But teach a man to fish, and he will spend all day in a boat drinking beer."
Piss around, he will die, and you won't have to feel guilty any more. I've never met a tree hugger/people feeder that didn't want us to explore space. Most of us/them want to stop wars so we can feed people. Space is an exellent idea. We need to be on at least two planets within the next hundred years to not go extince, IMO.
"What has been going on is essentially cyber-terrorism and from what has been reported so far the terrorist clearly have the upper hand."
WTF! Its all terrorism people! Graffiti, spammers, littering, smashing a window. Where does it stop. I hope to hell the poster isn't an American, because I would consider overthrowing a country with no evidence and then murdering tens of thousands of people to establish your military dictatorship a hell of a lot more terrorist than Blue security finding themselves in a position of surrender.
Why don't Blue Security, if they are having such a problem with it, trace what attacks they can and force whichever legal authority that is supposed to deal with it, to deal with it. If they won't deal with it, then send them a nice letter saying that you will be redirecting all evidence of future attacks straight to them. Whilst you are at it, collect all the ip addresses of the computers sending the attacks, and start suing people. That will get you some media coverage at least. For the oversea's botnet's, play the homeland security card. American companies are under attack! Defend the economy!
Sorry muhgcee, that wasn't directed at you, it just seemed the right thread to say it in.
It was a joke, and a valid question. In terms of boxing, I have heard some pacific peoples should make better boxers because of their skull design. Look at some sports and see the mix of ethnicity. Is it due to economics, culture? Are you going to refuse to look at possible genetic differences because you feel that is racist? It is mainly just a difference of melatonin after all. Or do we say that because we haven't bothered to look. I would rather know the truth that dismiss something because of a political climate.
"What about the ethical aspect of putting human genes in rice? Wouldn't people who eat that rice be eating a part of a human? That's kind of freaky to think about."
I dunno, ask Paris. Opps, sorry, she doesn't swallow.
"...Because XM makes available vast catalogues of music in every genre, XM subscribers will have little need ever again to buy legitimate copies of plaintiffs' sound recordings,"
No. I don't think I read it wrong. Its from the lawsuit filed by the plaintiff. The plaintiff is saying that if you subscribe to XM you won't have to buy copy's of the plaintiff's sound recordings. With the use of the word legitimate, the plaintiff is saying that the XM subsribers are using illegimate copy's. This is the reason for the lawsuit. As the plaintiff is suing XM for alleged illegal distribution, they are therefore inferring that the copies made are illegitimate.
To put it plainly, I took the word legitimate out and read the sentence and then put it back in. I think the word is spin. It's like saying, "We, the good people". You have grouped yourselves as the good people and inferred that everyone else is not. I may well be wrong, but from your comment I don't think so.
You are right in saying that the lawsuit is about whether "other methods of disseminating and cataloging copyrighted music (specifically, recording satalite radio) are legal". I think the question is whether the copies created in the dissemination are legal, and took exception to the inferral of the word legitimate.
Can we have a third opinion? Oh, and can a grammer nazi rip apart my sad use of english. I learn from being beaten.
Slashdot Mirror
Dear Prime Minister,
I have just read about extraordinary rendition on an online forum. This is a practice where the American government sends suspects overseas for interrogation and imprisonment. This practice is seen as a way of circumventing their obligations under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. If cases such as these are presented in an American court they are dismissed by the administration on "State Secrets" grounds.
In view of this I would like to ask the Prime Minister to;
*Assure me that we are in no way an accomplice, indirectly or directly, to this practice.
*Investigate these rumors for evidence.
*Act upon any evidence obtained.
I realise that America is the most powerful country in the world currently, but at the same time I don't think any moral person of our country would justify that as grounds for turning a blind eye to torture.
Yours sincerely, .
I doubt that will have any effect, but who knows, maybe she has received a thousands more like it. Good luck, I hope things improve for you. If it gets to bad, you will more than likely be welcome at this end of the world. We aren't totally screwed up in N.Z. yet (just a touch). Its a pity, America once epitomized hope for me. I believed in it standing for freedom, rights, humanity. When Neil Armstrong said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." I believed he meant for mankind. When I visited Los Angeles as a teenager, I liked the people. They were helpful and friendly....just good people. I still believe that most Americans are good people. At some point though, you have to stand for what you believe in or you will lose it. Even if you find it was a lie, it is still better to know.
Over the past five years my impressions of America have been destroyed by the actions of its government both at home and on the world stage. After reading Slashdot over the past year, there was a brief moment of hope that there were people still willing to lay down their comforts for the ideals expressed in your constitution. It seems now that Slashdot is a place were people say they stand for certain ideals, but the saying of it is enough for them. It is not enough for me.
Goodbye, good luck. BarefootGenius.Or we could build them with hollow sections and fill them with helium. That solves weight. As for oxygen and meteorites, why not have more than one? While we are at it, why not build a huge tube out to the vacumn, pump the air out, release the valve and use the atmospheric pressure to rise on? Dear gods, I have read to much sci fi.
"there are an infinite number of numbers between three and four"
Oh really? Would that be natural, rational, real, complex, or integers?
THIS IS NOT A TROLL! THIS IS PURE FUCKING ANGER.
I'm sorry if that upsets some of you. I just can't believe it. Can any of you explain how you are justifying this to yourselves?
I would imagine that is fairly common. If you are a cop you don't want to piss off the locals, so you pick on the tourists. Gets the numbers up, looks good, and you don't have to face them the next day.
Vociferous
adjective
Vociferous people express their opinions and complaints loudly and repeatedly in speech, and vociferous demands, etc. are made repeatedly and loudly.
Damn, I read it as veraciously....
"since the businesses will just pack up and leave."
And be replaced by French business. The French music scene is quite large.
"I am now creating Web 2.1 and releasing it under a full open creative commons license. Use it however you want."
When is Web 2.2 coming out? I have heard 2.1 isn't stable.
Step 2 - Gather around the projector and watch
Step 3 - Piss yourself laughing!
Sorry Googley Bear, I already have Digikam. Thanks for all the wine patches though.
Have you all forgotten Bangalore.
Two points. The first is that children are a special case. They are purposely discriminated against. The second is that schools are not there to teach you to think. They are there to indoctrinate you and prepare you for the workforce.
Welcome to your culture! You will be bludgeoned with it all your life, but you will never meet it.
It is humorous isn't it. The story gets splashed all over /., is used as an example of why patents have gone to hell, and nobody appears to have done anything about it. Meanwhile, some actor gets pissed off, raises the money and does something. Doesn't bode well for /. at all.
Piss around, he will die, and you won't have to feel guilty any more. I've never met a tree hugger/people feeder that didn't want us to explore space. Most of us/them want to stop wars so we can feed people. Space is an exellent idea. We need to be on at least two planets within the next hundred years to not go extince, IMO.
Daves not here, man. :)
WTF! Its all terrorism people! Graffiti, spammers, littering, smashing a window. Where does it stop. I hope to hell the poster isn't an American, because I would consider overthrowing a country with no evidence and then murdering tens of thousands of people to establish your military dictatorship a hell of a lot more terrorist than Blue security finding themselves in a position of surrender.
Why don't Blue Security, if they are having such a problem with it, trace what attacks they can and force whichever legal authority that is supposed to deal with it, to deal with it. If they won't deal with it, then send them a nice letter saying that you will be redirecting all evidence of future attacks straight to them. Whilst you are at it, collect all the ip addresses of the computers sending the attacks, and start suing people. That will get you some media coverage at least. For the oversea's botnet's, play the homeland security card. American companies are under attack! Defend the economy!
Sorry muhgcee, that wasn't directed at you, it just seemed the right thread to say it in.
Are they including system restore? I can't read the page, but that would make it about the right size. Say 7GB for the OS and 8GB for system restore.
It was a joke, and a valid question. In terms of boxing, I have heard some pacific peoples should make better boxers because of their skull design. Look at some sports and see the mix of ethnicity. Is it due to economics, culture? Are you going to refuse to look at possible genetic differences because you feel that is racist? It is mainly just a difference of melatonin after all. Or do we say that because we haven't bothered to look. I would rather know the truth that dismiss something because of a political climate.
How embarrassing! And there I was, carefully correcting all the copies to copy's, worrying about punctuation.
"What about the ethical aspect of putting human genes in rice? Wouldn't people who eat that rice be eating a part of a human? That's kind of freaky to think about."
I dunno, ask Paris. Opps, sorry, she doesn't swallow.
"...Because XM makes available vast catalogues of music in every genre, XM subscribers will have little need ever again to buy legitimate copies of plaintiffs' sound recordings,"
No. I don't think I read it wrong. Its from the lawsuit filed by the plaintiff. The plaintiff is saying that if you subscribe to XM you won't have to buy copy's of the plaintiff's sound recordings. With the use of the word legitimate, the plaintiff is saying that the XM subsribers are using illegimate copy's. This is the reason for the lawsuit. As the plaintiff is suing XM for alleged illegal distribution, they are therefore inferring that the copies made are illegitimate.
To put it plainly, I took the word legitimate out and read the sentence and then put it back in. I think the word is spin. It's like saying, "We, the good people". You have grouped yourselves as the good people and inferred that everyone else is not. I may well be wrong, but from your comment I don't think so.
You are right in saying that the lawsuit is about whether "other methods of disseminating and cataloging copyrighted music (specifically, recording satalite radio) are legal". I think the question is whether the copies created in the dissemination are legal, and took exception to the inferral of the word legitimate.
Can we have a third opinion? Oh, and can a grammer nazi rip apart my sad use of english. I learn from being beaten.
Legitimate? I thought they hadn't won the case yet. Typical stuff from the RIAA though.
Yes, and buggered if I can see a 757. Tried to find an alternative source for the video and found this though. Its .swf but quite well done.
Fusion?
I hope you didn't use css then because Internet Explorer will mangle your box sizes.